Gardaí confirm a 20% increase in domestic violence reports in Cork this year

Crime rates in many categories are returning to pre-Covid levels

Chief Superintendent Tom Myers said gardaí and members of the specialist protective services unit are working very closely with the victims who have reported the incidents, and on making “call backs” - follow-up or check-in phone calls or visits. File photo

There has been a 20% increase in reported incidents of domestic violence in Cork city so far this year compared to the same period last year.

And a fifth of all reported incidents of assault causing harm in the Cork city garda division since January occurred in a domestic violent situation, new figures show.